THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 609

thousand acres, more or less, bounded by a line
proceeding from the boundary of the present Gold
Field along the southern boundary of Run 28 and
the Otakaik Stream to the Waitaki River; thence to
the eastern boundary of the Marawhenua Hundred;
thence along the said eastern boundary of the Mara-
whenua Hundred and the northern and western
boundaries of the Kakanui Hundred, and a direct
line from the south-west corner of the said Kakanui
Hundred to Kakanui Peak; and thence northerly
along the boundary of the present Gold Field to the
starting point.

All that area situate in the Province of Otago,
containing by estimation seventy thousand acres,
more or less, bounded by a line proceeding from
Kurow Mountain to and along the Little Awakino
Stream to the Waitaki River; thence southerly to
the confluence of the Otakaik Stream; thence
westerly along the said Otakaik Stream and the
southern boundary of Run 28, to the boundary
of the present Gold Field; thence northerly along the
said boundary to Kurow Mountain, the starting
point.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir
George Ferguson Bowen, Knight Grand
Cross of the Most Distinguished Order
of Saint Michael and Saint George,
Governor and Commander-in-Chief in
and over Her Majesty's Colony of New
Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-
Admiral of the same; and issued under
the Seal of the said Colony, this second
day of November, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-nine.
WILLIAM Fox.

Approved in Council.
HENRY D. PITT, Captain, R.A.,
Private Secretary
(for Clerk of the Executive Council).
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by "The Customs Regulation Act,
1858," it is enacted that the Governor may
from time to time, by Proclamation, make provision
for the examination of exported gold, not being gold
coin, and respecting the mode of packing and
securing the same, and may prohibit the exportation
thereof, except from specified ports, and generally
may regulate and restrict the export of gold, other
than gold coin; and further, that the Governor may
from time to time regulate and restrict the carriage
of gold, other than gold coin, coastwise, from one
port of the Colony to another: And whereas by
"The Gold Duty Act, 1858," provision is made for
levying a duty upon gold exported from New
Zealand:

And whereas by Proclamation dated the eighth
day of January, one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-seven, and published in the New Zealand
Gazette, on the nineteenth day of January, one thou-
sand eight hundred and sixty-seven, the Governor
did, in pursuance and exercise of the aforesaid power
and authority, declare and proclaim that no gold,
other than gold coin, should thereafter be shipped
from any part of the Colony of New Zealand, either
for exportation or to be carried coastwise from one
port to another in the said Colony, except gold upon
which the said export duty in and by "The Gold
Duty Act, 1858," aforesaid, authorized to be levied,
shall have been duly levied by and paid to the
Collector of Customs for the port from which the
same gold shall be first shipped:

And whereas it is expedient to exempt from the
above recited restriction, gold, the produce of the
Province of Auckland, and to permit the same to be
removed from any port within the said Province of
Auckland to the Port of Auckland, previous to the
duty being paid thereon:

Now therefore I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen,
the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in
exercise of the power in me vested for this purpose,
do hereby proclaim and declare that gold, the pro-
duce of the Province of Auckland, may be shipped
and carried coastwise from any port in the Province
of Auckland to the Port of Auckland, without the
export duty in and by "The Gold Duty Act, 1858,"
being first levied or paid thereon.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir
George Ferguson Bowen, Knight Grand
Cross of the Most Distinguished Order
of Saint Michael and Saint George,
Governor and Commander-in-Chief in
and over Her Majesty's Colony of New
Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-
Admiral of the same; and issued under
the Seal of the said Colony, this eighth day
of November, in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and sixty-
nine.
WILLIAM Fox
(for the Commissioner of Customs).

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Auckland, this
second day of November, 1869.

Present :

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by "The Mining Companies Limited
Liability Act, 1865," it is enacted that the
Governor in Council may from time to time appoint
in and for each mining district some proper person
to be Official Agent in and for such District, and
may require of such person such security as he shall
think fit:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor, by
and with the advice and consent of the Executive
Council of New Zealand, doth hereby appoint

CÆSAR HASTINGS OTWAY, Esq.,
of Shortland, in the Province of Auckland, to
be Official Agent, subject to the provisions con-
tained in the said Act and "The Mining Companies
Limited Liability Act Amendment Act, 1869," in
and for the Mining District of the Thames Gold
Fields, and doth hereby require of the said Cæsar
Hastings Otway security by bond, with two approved
sureties, in the form and to the amount specified in
the Schedule hereto.

HENRY D. PITT, Captain, R.A.,
Private Secretary
(for Clerk of the Executive Council).

SCHEDULE.

Know all men by these presents that wel
and$^2$ are held and firmly bound
unto Her Majesty Queen Victoria in the sum of
five hundred pounds of good and lawful money of
Great Britain, to be paid unto our said Lady the
Queen, her heirs and successors, for which pay-
ment well and truly to be made we bind ourselves
and every of us, jointly and severally, for and in
the whole, and the heirs, executors, and adminis-
trators of us and every of us, firmly by these
presents. Sealed with our seals. Dated this
day of in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.